Surviving to Drive by Guenther Steiner — the loveable ‘ugly Italian with a big foking mouth’
The fly-on-the-wall Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive has made an unlikely global star out of Guenther Steiner, the tall, profane, no-filter, German-speaking Italian who runs the Haas racing team. Because Haas is a minnow in a multibillion-dollar sport, the fierce but loveable Steiner spends his life on an emotional rollercoaster of hope and exasperation, constantly dealing with disasters.
Such is his TV fame that Formula One fans wear T-shirts bearing his face and legendary quote: “We look like a bunch of wankers”. He is mobbed in airports and parody Twitter accounts have been set up, which he accepts with grace. His eccentric charm is one of the reasons F1 has broken through in the US, with new races, record attendance figures and
